Necessità e contingenza in Descartes

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journal	RIVISTA DI FILOSOFIA NEO-SCOLASTICA
section	Online First
title	Necessità e contingenza in Descartes Necessity and Contingency in Descartes
Author	Elena Rapetti
Publisher	Vita e Pensiero
format	Article \| Pdf
online since	12-2021
doi	10.26350/001050_000295
issn	0035-6247 (print) \| 1827-7926 (digital)
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Descartes’s ‘extravagant’ doctrine of the creation of eternal truths deploys a singular modal structure in which necessity and contingency, impossibility and possibility depend on divine choice. This article, based on the analysis of Cartesian texts, aims to draw a picture of the connection between divine freedom, the necessity of the laws of nature and the human knowledge of the eternal truths, to show that, through this doctrine, Descartes is interested in a correct view about God’s nature and power rather than in the construction of a general theory of modality. keywords Descartes, Necessity, Contingency, Eternal Truths Author biography Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano. Email: elena.rapetti@unicatt.it Enter a comment for Necessità e contingenza in Descartes

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Descartes’s ‘extravagant’ doctrine of the creation of eternal truths deploys a singular modal structure in which necessity and contingency, impossibility and possibility depend on divine choice. This article, based on the analysis of Cartesian texts, aims to draw a picture of the connection between divine freedom, the necessity of the laws of nature and the human knowledge of the eternal truths, to show that, through this doctrine, Descartes is interested in a correct view about God’s nature and power rather than in the construction of a general theory of modality.